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Not much to show unfortunately, this is actually the second attempt, but I did not save the first one. I still don’t like it, the shape is … not right.

I think I need to build a “form” first before building any kind of lattice, get the general shape proper first.

No point in posting a picture, it’s the same boot with better weight-painting and a slightly shorter foot.

Anyway, the model got final yesterday so today is all about putting the HUD together.

I started the day late, and did a ton of real world cleaning. Still I think I’m done with ALL the textures! I’ve also uploaded another test in world, this time it has foot joints (which I will MOST LIKELY disable through script/anim because bending your feet at that angle is just wrong).

I’ll check with Shigeko again to see if there are anymore last-minute tweaks that need to be done and then I should be able to prepare the model for final upload.

I did a quick test rig for the boots to test them (and prance a bit) in world. The clearance is a bit too tight in the back of the leg  and the outer front, so I need to fix that.

I’m pretty confident about the textures so I started the final bake. I ‘should be done at some point during the night.

It’s still missing that ankle strap tho. But this is essentially at “final” resolution.

Not sure how to call this any other way.

Anyway it looks excruciatingly boring, but the idea is that I’m using multiple textures for the different areas that allow customization (base, sole, heel, side panels, strap, strap trim, metals), and each area has its own texture map optimized to reduce waste on power of two maps:

• 1024×512 for the base and half of the metal.
• 1024*256 for the side panels.
• 1024*128 for the straps.
• 1024*128 for the other half of the metal.
• 256*128 for the heel.
• 128*64 for the sole.

It’s all on the same map (yet constrained to power of 2 sections) because it’s just easier for me to do my unwrapping that way.

The only reason the metal is separated into two maps is because I had a bunch of free space on the base map, yet not enough of it to fit all the metal parts at a decent resolution (Also because half way through I realized that I forgot to account for the KDC logo and zipper pull & tab :P).

I started those on Sunday, didn’t work on them Monday and only started late today. The metal parts of the spur seem a little too high poly to my liking, but that’s rounded pieces really, you can’t get around a minimum amount of polygons.

It’s 3 am, I’m going to bed.

Quick post before nap >_<

I need to work a lot faster than this.

The first picture was when I completed the LPM, eventually I got rid of the back thigh panel because it won’t amount to anything once the normal map is in and it gave me an easier time building the knee-joint (I realized that I was expecting it lower than it actually is).

I figured I would also do a quick bending test. It appears to work just fine.

I’ve said it before, and I know that I am repeating myself on this point:

Remeshing is essential when you work with subdivision modifiers.

If you think that remeshing/retopologising is beneath you or that , then maybe you should do the world a favor and stop making SecondLife content.

Or content for any realtime application in fact.

This is the result of Monday/Tuesday: I am far from happy with it, I can see many potentially weak areas and it looks a bit too dense in places where it shouldn’t be. Other than that, reasonable progress I suppose.